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Non-monetary capital formation and rural development

L.J. Zimmerman
- 01 Jun 1975 - 
- Vol. 3, Iss: 6, pp 411-419
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In this paper, the authors propose a development strategy aiming at the improvement of the material conditions of the poorest 40 per cent of the population should give a high priority to non-monetary capital formation.
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This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 1975-06-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capital formation & Capital deepening.

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Does Foreign Aid Promote Privatization? Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of foreign aid on the decision to privatize state-owned enterprises in 35 developing countries and found that foreign aid has no systematic impact on the privatization process.
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Integrated rural development: key elements of an integrated rural development strategy

TL;DR: Integrated rural development (IRD) as mentioned in this paper is a concept for planning that tries to re-emphasize the need for a comprehensive approach to rural development, which is more conducive to mobilizing people's initiative and providing a better system to take into account the needs of the various social groups.
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Peasants and Economic Development: Populist Lessons for Africa

TL;DR: This article argued that the usual economic models of international trade and development are misspecified because they deal only with market relations and omit important social and political equations (i.e., the social relations of production) which are important variables in the development matrix.
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A Reconsideration of Economic Development Theories 1952–77

TL;DR: In the early 1950s, after World War II, the great colonial empires very soon crumbled although they had taken centuries to conquer or to build by about 1950 the West had lost its colonies; instead, we had first the underdeveloped countries, then the developing countries, and finally the Third World Although devastated Europe had first to deal with many internal problems, interest in the under developed countries (UDCs) soon came to the foreground Economists in particular, who had never shown interest in colonial economics, found underdeveloped areas a different piece of cake as discussed by the authors.
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From “Putting the Last First” to “Working with People” in Rural Development Planning: A Bibliometric Analysis of 50 Years of Research

TL;DR: In this paper , a review examines, through bibliometric studies, the scientific knowledge generated on sustainable rural development planning in the last 50 years, analysing 6895 articles published in journals between 1970 and 2020.
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Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a different framework for solving problems of distribution accumulation and growth first in a closed and then in an open economy, where the assumption of an unlimited labor supply is used.
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Peasants and Dualism with or without Surplus Labor

TL;DR: Sen as mentioned in this paper studied the economic equilibrium of a peasant family and discussed the theory of surplus labor and disguised unemployment and the response of peasant output to a withdrawal of the working population, and the efficiency of resource allocation in peasant agriculture and in share-cropping.